Reseating the Video Card Let Computer Start Again
Trance-Lord-Snyder
Eastern PA Member
So I tried putting a new hard drive into my computer and then it wouldn't boot. It made a long beep at startup. Ok I said, I'll just take the hard drive out and it'll boot. Nope. So what in the heck happened? After 2 hours of restraining myself from throwing my computer at the wall, I figured it out. I took the video card out of it's PCI Express slot, booted the PC, it beeped and nothing happened as expected. I put the video card back in it's slot, and voila! Computer boots! So just in case you ever think doing something so stupid would have no effect, do it anyways. You just never know. I put the hard drive back in expecting a similar result but it booted fine. So I have no clue what happened.
If there is some kind of logical explanation to this, please let me know, because I'm confused.
If there is some kind of logical explanation to this, please let me know, because I'm confused.
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Good reminder to all of us, though. Thanks.